After 96 hours of travel time I have successfully made it to my new home in Manzini, Swaziland. We spent a beautiful day in London and also met some wonderful people along the way at Alabanza in South Africa. I am training with some amazing missionaries and the current January world racers. My leaders are covering spiritual, practical, and relational aspects during training for our race. It has been great so far! There are about 80 crazy, young people living in the same home crying out for the nations, praying, and hungry for God to move in our midst.
I cannot explain the sensation of joining with such a passionate group of young people that have a desire to change our world and share the love of Christ to the lost and broken-hearted.
It is incredible! The January Racers are so encouraging and a blast to be around!
Thank you to everyone who has supported me thus far. Please, continue to cover me in prayer. I have somewhat limited internet connection over the next few days, but I will do my best to keep in touch as often as possible.
I am learning flexibility, and I am actually enjoying the sense of not knowing where we are going next or when. Please, be flexible
with me! My schedule and itinerary are sure to change several times throughout the year, so get ready. 🙂 Right now it looks like I will be either staying in Swaziland, going to Johanesburg or maybe even Cape Town now!
Woo-hoo!
I am at such peace with our schedule changing so often, because it shows that my leadership is spirit-led and going to move where the spirit of God leads.
I realize that sometimes it is necessary to have strong structure, but its so refreshing to know that throughout the year I am going to be where God has led us because we are not stuck on a schedule or itinerary.
Praise God!
God has been stripping me, tearing me apart and teaching me what true abandonment is all about.
Abandonment to a schedule, personal rights like privacy, and abandonment to comforts from home like close family, a nice bed and security. It has definitely been a painful yet incredible process.
God is showing me that I need to abandon, more than anything, the assurance of security from man, and focus on relying on Him and becoming completely and totally dependent on His security and Him alone.
I never really realized how much I depended on my guy friends and earthly father for my security.
I have been dealing with a fear for several years now that was planted deep inside my heart, and to think that my Heavenly Father was there the whole time to offer me an unfailing love and sense of security and safety like no other.
I feel so foolish sometimes in why it took me this long to grasp this.
I spent so many hours fearing and dwelling on what “might happen if…”
But God has revealed to me a new way.
Here are a few Scriptures I have been standing on in overcoming this:
Psalms 41:1-3
Happy is one who cares for the poor; the Lord will save him in a day of adversity.
The Lord will keep him and preserve him; he will be blessed in the land.
You will not give him over to the desire of his enemies.
The Lord will sustain him on his sickbed; You will heal him on the bed where he lies.
Isaiah 51:7-8
Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My instruction; do not fear disgrace by men, and do not be scattered by their taunts.
For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool.
But My
righteousness will last forever, and My salvation for all generations.
Proverbs 18:10
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are protected.
Psalms 27:1-6
The Lord is my light and my salvation-whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life-of whom shall I be afraid?
When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh, my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell.
Though an army deploy against me, still I am confident.
I have asked one thing from the Lord; it is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, gazing on the beauty of the Lord and seeking Him in His temple.
For He will conceal me in His shelter in the day of adversity; He will hide me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high on a rock.
Then my head will be high above my enemies around me; I will offer sacrifices in His tent with shouts of joy.
I will sing and make music to the Lord.
I hope these Scriptures will encourage you as well if you ever have any doubt in your heart that God is not with you or that He will not protect you.
He promises in His Word that He will be with you always!
Praise Jesus!
We serve an awesome God who is full of love and cares for each and every one of us! Go in peace!
